Frank Orlin (13 results)

Soft Cover. Condition: Good. Wraps have rubbed edges. Pages are clean, text is unmarked. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Boards are rubbed with edgewear. Heavy notation on end pages. Pencil markings in text. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex Libris.

Cloth. Condition: Good to Fine. No Jacket. The green cover had the title in gold with a design of a sun behind a tree branch; the title on the spine is also in gold. The corners and spine ends are a bit bumped with a minor amount of shelf wear; the top edge has what looks like small spots of foxing. The endpapers have a stamp "Property of School Dept. Town of Saint George" which was from the St George High School(which is no longer in existence), there is also the same written in ink and a former students name, the first free endpaper has some paper clip marks and a small hole on fore edge; the back free endpaper has been removed. The interior is clean except for three pencil lines on the "preface and foreword to teachers" otherwise clean; there are many black and white photos and drawings throughout the book. which includes the index. …

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Cover rubbed and scuffed with edgewear. Pgs clean, tight and lightly tanning in margins. Signed by owner on fep. Size: 8vo - 7¾" - 9¾" Tall.

Paperback. Condition: Fair.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Later printing. Illustrated by Matilda Breuer. 35pp. Stapled pictorial wrappers. Ex-library with stamp inside front cover and small spine label, covers with a few small creases and modest wear to the extremities, very good. The Basic Science Education Series.

Paperback. Condition: Fair. No front cover.

Soft Cover. Condition: Good to Very Good. First Edition. ----------pulp magazine, standard pulp size. First page pasted to back of front cover, long front cover tear (repaired by the pasting), front cover trimmed, cover creases, half inch piece out of spine middle, wear to spine extremities, chipping to cover edges, small pieces out of back cover, a good-VG copy. Back cover advertisement is for Chesterfield cigarettes. Letter writers in letters-to-the-editor column: W.A. Gibsen, D. deWoronin, L.M. Jensen, Haywood Hood Jr., Bob (Wilson) Tucker, Walter Liebscher, L.P. Wakefield, William N. Anthony, J.H.morrell Jr., Irving Silbert, Jack Darrow, S.L. Birchby, Francis L. Ellissen, Thomas R. Daniel, J.C. Campbell, Irving I. Koch, Alvin Wingfield Jr. and R.M. Holland Jr. Howard V. Brown (front cover) (illustrator). …

Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. ----------pulp magazine, standard pulp size. Perhaps of interest to an ISAAC ASIMOV collector/researcher, as it contains an early, perhaps the earliest, letter to the editor from Asimov, age 14. Small (half-inch square) piece out of front cover fore-edge, faint cover creases, more than the usual small edge tears, a small piece of clear tape on a back cover tear, a VG copy. Back cover advertisement is for Camel cigarettes. Letter writers in letters-to-the-editor column: Clyde McCrary, Raphael Ehat, J.P. McCormack, Milton A. Rothman, Karl Van Campen (John W. Campbell), F.G. Hehr, ISAAC ASIMOV, Arthur L. Widner Jr., Jack Darrow, William S. Sykora, Dr. W.A. Gibson, Science Fiction Syndicate, Ira Melville Schey Jr., Ed Camille, Lawrence Devereff and Paul Poulsen. Howard V. Brown (front cover) (illustrator).…

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Good. First Edition; First Printing. Chicago: Ziff-Davis Publishing Company.1940. First Edition; First Printing Bedsheet sized pulp magazine. Pictorial wrappers [about 8.5" x 11.25"], 98 pages, illustrated. A good copy with some horizontal cracking to the spine which is torn at the corners, cover creasing, 3/4" snagged tear to the rear cover, text paper toned as usual with light chipping. See Photos Magbx 6 / E. Front cover art by Robert Fuqua Rear cover art by Frank R. Paul (illustrator).…

Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good to Very Good+. First Edition. ----------pulp magazine, standard pulp size. A little clear tape on the back of the front cover repairing small tears, small edge tears, small chips to spine extremities, small piece out of back cover, corner creases, a VG to VG+ copy. Back cover advertisement is for Ironized Yeast. Letter writers in letters-to-the-editor column: Norman R. Sloan, Bob Califf, J.H. Dunning, Veva Ford, Sidney L. Birchby, Ralph Schroeder, G.E. Malan, Randall O'Brien, Charles Shipley, Raymond F. Alvarez (Lester) Del Rey, Milton A. Rothman, Mephisto, William V. Kenney, Dale Tarr, Joe Waterman, J. Irwin Dalton, William Stocks, R.M. Tobey, Elton Andrews, Bob (Wilson) Tucker and Raymond Hood Jr. Howard V. Brown (front cover) (illustrator). …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 259. viii pp. ; red cloth ; no dustjacket ; LCCN:59-9257 ; Contents: Under this Earth -- Go thou my incense upward from this hearth -- The water wheel under Central Street -- Jefferson's legacy underground -- THe Philipse Dynasty : Court Baron on the Tappan Zee -- The Vikings : Vinland revisited -- Who discovered America? -- Sundays in the dirt -- Burials and vanished tepees -- Dig it yourself -- Underground photography -- Pipe hunting, potsherds, arrowheads and artifacts -- A future in the past. ; G. Book.…

4to. 160 pp. Text illustrations. Colour-illustrated softcovers, cover art by Harold V. Brown, yapp fore-edges (uniform light interior toning as usual, very slight shelfwear, creasing, small tear to yapp fore-edge front cover, slight chipping, minor dustsoiling back cover), still VG- copy. First edition of this uncommon installment in Astounding Stories after the pulp was bought and revived by Street & Smith, and Tremaine installed as editor. This issue features Leinster's "Sidewise in Time" considered one of the first parallel universe science fiction stories, along with Part III of Williamson's Legion of Space, and Part III of Fort's "Lo.".…